billyli at hkuxa.hku.hk (Billy Li) wrote:
>>> A simple question from a non-biologist. When a DNA sequence is transcripted
> to a primary RNA transcript, is the coding strand being duplicated directly
> to form the RNA transcript, or is the non-coding strand being complemented
> to form the RNA transcript?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> --
> Billy Li, email: billyli at hkuxa.hku.hk> Assistant Lecturer,
> Department of Statistics,
> University of Hong Kong.
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The non-coding strand is being complemented to form the RNA transcript.
Laurentiu